You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the

podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC.

It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world.

What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism

and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines.

And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject

you might not even have thought you were interested in.

Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment,

you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds.

Hello, you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio 4's The Food Program.

Welcome to our world, from cooking to culture, politics to pleasure.

We hope you enjoy it.

On one level this is the story.

On one level, this is the story of you and me and our relationship with food or more

accurately of us and our ancestors and what might be the oldest food story in the world.

Just walking through the woodland savanna, Tanzania East Africa, near the very large impressive Lake Yassi and I'm following some of the world's

last remaining hunter-gathere as the Hadza, a tribe of just over a thousand people.

And we're walking through this very dry woodland savannah, surrounded by large trunked bow-bowed trees and a casea bushes, prickly

thorns, dry soil and parched grass.

So far, all I've seen the meat

of some berries plucked from trees, fruit from the bau-bau tree.

But today they've bows and arrows and sharp sticks in hand because they're going hunting for porcupine, which I'm told is a great

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